[MONDAY MIX] Toaster Tunez

In honor of this week’s forthcoming Cultist AskMen.com column (who has two thumbs and is completely unqualified to give advice to anyone? THIS GUY), I thought I’d share with you this mix. This week’s column deals with knowing when you’re in love, but also with knowing when and how to say so. (It’ll be up Thursday, we’ll keep you posted as I know you are waiting with bated breath). Maybe it’s my generation (is something old people say), but to me, a really good mixtape always seemed like one of the coolest way to tell someone how you feel while also puffing out your impeccable music-taste feathers. Sure no one uses tapes anymore, or even CDs (our mixes live on the internet, super weird) but using other people’s words and sentiments as tiles in the mosaic of your own message has always been very appealing to me, a lyric nerd who to this day keeps a small book of favorite lines, which is very useful for…things and stuff. (Ironically one of the lines in said book is from Her Space Holiday, and it says “You can’t make someone love you with a song”). Anyway I’ve written about mixtapes before (and more than once), so I’ll curb it here, and just share the mix with you. It says something to someone, but maybe it will say something to you, too.

As the inimitable Lou Barlow put it, “Let’s go chase dragons through the snow” (although he may have been talking about heroin and not love, I can’t be entirely sure).

Listen below:

Toaster Tunez from Cultist on 8tracks.

Track Listing:

1. Jukebox Babe – Alan Vega

2. You Make It Move – The Gories

3. Fever – The Cramps

4. Funnel Of Love – Wanda Jackson/The Cramps

5. Hanging On The Telephone – The Nerves

6. Alex Chilton – The Replacements

7. I Am A Scientist – Guided By Voices

8. Sodajerk – Buffalo Tom

9. Crazy Rhythms – The Feelies

10. Driveway to Driveway – Superchunk

11. Skull – Sebadoh

12.  Into Your Arms – The Lemonheads

13. Son Of A Gun – Vaselines

14. Love Buzz – Shocking Blue

15. Cool School – Bratmobile

16. Sex Beat – The Gun Club

17. A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off – The Magnetic Fields